Questions, answered

A free, real-time Space for meetings and workshops. Open a Space and you walk in as your own little character, gather the team round the table, and run the session on the board with a timer, dot votes, polls and quizzes built in. Share a link and everyone is in the same Space, live, with no account needed.

No. Open a Space straight away, with no sign-up. Your work saves in your browser as you go, and pressing Share puts it online for others to join. Signing in (also free) keeps your spaces with you across devices and unlocks teams, API tokens and the AI connection. See guest vs account.

Press Open a Space and pick a Space to walk into (a Team Pod, a Virtual Office, a Coworking Space or an All-Hands Hall) or a session to run, from a retro to a town hall. 39 templates are ready, or start blank. The Space opens with you on your feet, and a short tour offers to show you round.

It runs in any modern browser, with nothing to install. A laptop, desktop or tablet gives you the full editor, and a tap is all it takes to walk your character. Small phone screens are best for viewing and light edits. See supported devices.

Plenty. Cmd-Z (or Ctrl-Z) undoes and Cmd-Shift-Z redoes, Cmd-K opens the command palette for any action, and single keys pick tools. The keyboard essentials article lists them all.

Yes. The canvas is a stop in the Tab order: move through its elements and edit them with the keyboard, and screen readers announce what is selected. See accessibility.

Yes. Choose Light, Dark or System from the Appearance button, and one choice covers the editor and the help centre alike. See dark mode.

Yes. Every feature is free for everyone, with no paid tier, no trial and no plan to introduce one. If we ship it, every user gets it.

Yes. The whole codebase is MIT-licensed and public on GitHub. You can read it, audit it, or contribute.

No. There are no "Pro" features and no billing anywhere in the code. Every feature is in the one free version at livehuddle.app.

Stand-ups and team check-ins in a Team Pod, retrospectives in five formats, Lean Coffee and town hall Q&A, brainstorms and affinity maps, Crazy Eights, planning poker, meeting agendas, quizzes, icebreakers and party games, and a whole virtual office to walk round between them.

39 starter templates across 12 categories, and twenty-five themes that recolour the whole board in one click, including dark and multi-colour schemes. You can also build and save a colour scheme of your own.

No. Every board in livehuddle is a workshop board: stickies, writing, pens, shapes, icons, media, charts and every session tool sit on one palette, and the Session strip at the foot holds the timer, votes and polls. Pick Avatar on the toolbar to walk, and any other tool to work on the board.

Yes. A space holds as many tabs as you need, which you can group into folders, link between and open two at a time side by side. Each tab has Photoshop-style layers you can hide, lock and restack, and your spaces live in nested folders in the Explorer, shown as a list, as cards or as a sortable Details table. Drag a space onto a folder to file it.

Yes. Upload an image once and reuse it from your gallery, or search Openverse for an openly licensed photo or illustration without leaving the editor. See images.

Yes. Add a table and paste cells straight in from a spreadsheet, or place a pie, bar or line chart, a progress bar, a rating or a timeline. See data elements.

Yes. Add to Another Space puts the tab you are on into another of your spaces. It is the same tab in both places, not a copy, so an edit in one shows up in the other. See Add to Another Space.

Yes. Every board is a whiteboard: the palette’s Draw category holds a pencil, a highlighter and arrows, and stickies, text and shapes are a key away, on a plain, dotted or grid backdrop in light or dark. See Drawing.

Yes. Switch on Spotlight to dim the board around your cursor, or the laser to leave a glowing trail on everyone’s screen. A Bring Focus element offers everyone a jump to the thing you mean, and anyone can press Follow beside you to see what you see.

Yes. Press Cmd-Z (or Ctrl-Z) to step back your recent edits and Cmd-Shift-Z to bring one back; the buttons also sit in the bottom-right corner. Undo is personal, so it rewinds your own changes, not a teammate’s; if you both changed the same element, it puts that element back as you had it.

Deleted spaces wait in the Trash for 30 days before they are removed for good, so you can restore them from the Trash in the Explorer or in Settings › Account. Team spaces go to their team’s Trash.

Yes, that is the point. Share a link and teammates join the same Space in real time, with live cursors, walking characters, selection rings, presence on each tab, comments and a laser pointer. If you have not signed in, a new space starts in your browser, and the first Share syncs it in one step.

Every change shows up for everyone live. Edits to different elements merge cleanly. If two people change the same element at the same moment, the most recent change is the one that sticks.

Yes. Comment on any element and reply in threads, then resolve them when they are done. You can also attach an action to an element and assign it to a teammate, so the follow-ups a meeting produces stay with the space instead of getting lost.

Yes, once you sign in. Create a team from the Explorer, invite people by email, and everyone gets a shared library of spaces. Teams have Admin and Member roles: admins manage membership, everyone else just gets to work.

Yes. Open Collaborators from the avatars on the tab bar and press Follow beside a teammate: your view goes wherever theirs goes, until you move away yourself. See following along.

Yes. A Space opens with you standing on it as a little pixel character in your own colour: click or tap to walk, and share a status, speech bubbles and reactions with everyone there. The Virtual Office, Coworking Space, Team Pod and All-Hands Hall templates give you rooms, desks and a coffee machine to meet at. See Avatar mode.

Yes. Lock it from the tab’s menu and the whole canvas becomes read-only until someone unlocks it, with a padlock beside its name. You can also lock single elements or whole layers. See locking a tab.

Your Inbox gathers the actions and comment threads waiting on you across every space, and Home shows what other people did while you were away. Once you sign in, emails can tell you too, and you choose which in Settings. See the Inbox.

It is what livehuddle is for. Every board carries a timer, dot votes and polls, and templates start a retrospective, Lean Coffee or town hall Q&A in one click. Whoever holds the facilitator baton runs the room’s timer, votes, polls and reveals. Estimate cards run planning poker, a temperature check shows how the room feels, a quiz asks what it knows, and an idea box collects anonymous ideas. See session tools.

From a space you own, create an editor link (full edit access), a participant link (add stickies, write and vote, without reshaping the board) or a view-only link. Anyone with the link can join. Give a link an expiry of a week, a month or six months so it stops working on its own, or revoke it at any time and it stops working immediately.

Yes. Add a password in the Share dialog and every link to that space asks for it before opening.

Yes. When a space has more than one tab, the Share dialog lets a link open a single tab, as an editor, participant or view-only link, and the rest of the space stays private. See sharing one tab.

Yes. Any share link can be embedded as a live-updating iframe: an editor link embeds an editable space, and a participant or view-only link a read-only one. Copy the snippet from the Share dialog and paste it into Notion, Confluence, a wiki or any page that allows iframes; it always shows the Space as it is now.

Yes. A live image is a plain image URL that follows your space, redrawn after each save, so a GitHub README or a doc always shows the current version. See live images.

A public gallery of spaces people are proud of. Signed-in owners can publish a space with a title, description and tags; anyone can browse it, open it read-only, like it and make their own copy in one click. Take a look.

Yes. livehuddle runs an MCP server at mcp.livehuddle.app. Connect a compatible AI tool and, after a one-time authorisation, it can find, read, create and edit the spaces in your account. Its changes appear live for anyone on the tab, outlined so you can see them and undo them. Build with AI walks you through connecting Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more.

Yes. Once you sign in, create an API token and call the REST API to read and manage your spaces from scripts, CI or anything that can send a header. See the API overview.

Yes. Install it from npm as @livehuddle/cli (or run it with npx). It signs in through your browser and can read, edit, create, share and export spaces from your terminal, which makes it handy for scripts and coding agents.

Yes. Export a tab as PNG, SVG, PDF or a portable JSON file you can import back. Hidden layers stay out of image exports unless you switch them on.

Not directly yet: there is no importer for other whiteboards. Export a board from the old tool as a PNG and add it to a tab as an image, or start the next session from one of the templates. A livehuddle JSON export imports back in full.

Yes, once you sign in. Connect Google Drive in Settings and your spaces, with your work from every other liveworkspace app, are kept in step with matching files and folders in your own Drive, so you always hold a copy.

Spaces saved to your account are stored in our database on Cloudflare, and spaces in This Browser stay in your browser. There are no tracking pixels, no advertising and no third-party analytics. We do record anonymous, first-party usage (which features get used, never your content or name) and show it openly on our telemetry page. See the privacy policy for the details.

Yes. Offline Mode saves a space only in your browser, never on our servers. Until you sign in, new spaces start that way; after, you can choose it when you create one. Either way you can switch later. See Offline Mode.

A space kept only in your browser goes with it, so share it or sign in first. Share syncs a space online in one step, and after you sign in livehuddle offers to move every browser-only space into your account. Spaces saved to your account are never touched. See Offline Mode.

Yes. Every change saves on its own, with a status that shows saving, saved or a problem. Close the tab and reload, and your space comes back exactly as you left it.

Delete any space you own at any time, and delete your account and everything in it yourself from your account settings. See deleting your data.

Try reloading first. If it still will not open, the editor offers to repair this browser’s saved state without touching your spaces. The troubleshooting guide walks through every step.

The liveworkspace status page checks each of livehuddle’s services from your browser while you watch, and from Cloudflare every hour, with 90 days of livehuddle’s history and any recent incidents, beside the services every app shares.

It is built in the open by Tom McClean and Webber, with contributions welcome on GitHub.

Use the contact page, or send us a message through the contact form. Bug reports and ideas are welcome on GitHub too.